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American Ornithologists Union. 1957. The AOU Checklist of North American Birds. 5th ed. Lord Baltimore Press, (Baltimore, Maryland). [This edition includes subspecies and continues to be useful for banders].
American Ornithologists Union. 1998. The AOU Checklist of North American Birds. 7th ed. Allen Press (Lawrence,Kansas).
Baille, S. R., P. M. North, and A. G. Gosler. 1999. Large-scale studies of marked birds: Proceedings of the EURING97 Conference. Bird Study 46: Supplement.
Brewer, David et al. 2000. Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding Volume 1: Doves, Cuckoos, and Hummingbirds through Passerines, 1921 - 1995. Canadian Wildlife Service Special Publication.
Bub, Hans. 1995. Bird Trapping and Bird Banding: A Handbook for Trapping Methods All Over the World. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Busse, P. 2000. Bird Station Manual. University of Gdansk, Poland. 264 pp.
Dwight, Jonathan Jr. 1975. The Sequence of Plumages and Moults of the Passerine Birds of New York. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences,
Gaunt, A. S. and L. W. Oring, eds. 1999. Guidelines for the use of wild birds in Research, 2nd ed.Washington DC: The Ornithological Council.
Gustafson, M., J. Hildenbrand, and L. Metras. 2005. The North American Bird Banding Manual (Electronic Version). Version 1.0.
Howell, S. N. G., C. Corbin, P. Pyle, and D. I. Rogers. 2003. The first basic problem: a review of molt and plumage homologies. Condor 105:635-653.
Humphrey , P. H., and K. C. Parkes. 1959. An approach to the study of molts and plumages. Auk 76:1-31.
Mulvihill, R. S. 1993. Using Wing Molt to Age Passerines . North American Bird Bander 18:1-10.
North American Banding Council. 2001. The Instructor's Guide to Training Passerine Bird Banders in North America. Point Reyes Station: North American Banding Council.
North American Banding Council. 2001. The North American Banders' Study Guide. Point Reyes Station: North American Banding Council.
North American Banding Council. 2001. The North American Banders' Manual for Banding Passerines and Near Passerines (excluding Hummingbirds and Owls). Point Reyes Station: North American Banding Council.
Pyle, P. 1995. Incomplete Flight Feather Molt and Age in Certain North American Non-passerines. North American Bird Bander 20:15-26
Pyle, P. 1997. Identification Guide to North American Passerines. Part I. Slate Creek Press, Bolinas, CA.
Pyle, P. 1997. Molt limits in North American Passerines. North American Bird Bander 22:49-89.
Pyle, P. and S. N. G. Howell. 1995. Flight-feather Molt Patterns and Age in North American Woodpeckers. Journal of Field Ornithology, 66:564-581.
Ralph, C. John, et al. 1993. Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds. Albany: Pacific Southwest Research Station.
Redfern, C. P. F. and J. A. Clark. 2001. Ringer's Manual. Thetford: British Trust for Ornithology.
Sibley , D. 2000. The Sibley guide to Birds. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Svennsson, Lars. 1975. Identification to European Passerines. Stockholm: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet. (4th revised ed.)
Baltosser, W. H. 1987. Age, species, and sex determination of four North American hummingbirds. N. Am. Bird Bander 12: 151-166.
Baltosser, W. H. 1994. Age and sex determination in the Calliope Hummingbird. Western Birds 25: 104-109.
Howell, Steve N.G. 2002. Hummingbirds of North America. The photographic guide. Natural Word, Academic Press. San Diego.
Jenni, Lukas and Raffael Winkler. Moult and Ageing of European Passerines. London: Academic Press, 1994.
McKenzie, P. M. and M. B. Robbins. 1999. Identification of adult male Rufous and Allen’s hummingbirds, with specific comments on dorsal coloration. Western Birds 30: 86-93.
Pyle, P. and S. G. Howell. 2000. Revised Ageing and Sexing Criteria for the Blue-throated Hummingbird. North American Bird Bander V. 25:134-136.
Pyle, P., S. G. Howell, and G. M. Yanega. 1997. Molt, retained flight feathers and age in North American hummingbirds. In, The era of Allan R. Phillips: a festschrift. R. W. Dickerman, compiler. Albuquerque, NM.
Russell, Stephen M. and Ruth O. Russell. The North American Banders' Manual for Banding Hummingbirds. Point Reyes Station: North American Banding Council, 2001.
Stiles, F. G. 1972. Age and sex determination in Rufous and Allen hummingbirds. Condor 74: 25-32.
Williamson, Sheri L. 2001. A field guide to the hummingbirds of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. New York.
Yanega, G. M., P. Pyle, and G. R. Geupel. 1997. The timing and reliability of bill corrugations for ageing hummingbirds. Western Birds 28: 13-18.
Bloom , P., and W. S, Clark. 2001. Molt and sequence of plumages of Golden Eagles, and a technique for in-hand ageing. North American Bird Bander 26(3):97-116.
Bortolotti, G. R. 1984a. Sexual size dimorphism and age-related size variation in Bald Eagles. J. Wildl.Manage. 48:72-81.
Bortolotti, G. R. 1984b. Age and sex size variation in Golden Eagles. J. Field Ornith. 55:54-66.
Clark, W. S. 2001. Aging Bald Eagles. Birding 33:18-28.
Clark, W. S. 2004a. Wave molt of the primaries of Accipitrid raptors, and its use in ageing. Raptors Worldwide (eds. R. D. Chancellor, and B.-U. Meyburgh). Proc. of the V World Conf. on Birds of Prey, held in Budapest , Hungary , May 2003), World Working Group on Birds of Prey, Berlin , Germany .
Clark, W. S., and P. H. Bloom. 2005. Basic II and Basic III plumages of Rough-legged Hawks. J. Field Ornith. 76:83-89.
Clark, W. S. & B. K. Wheeler. 1989. Field identification of the White-tailed Hawk. Birding 21:190-195.
Clark, W. S. and B. K. Wheeler. 1995. The field identification of Common and Great Black Hawks. Birding 27:33-37.
Clark, W. S., and B. K. Wheeler. 2001. A Field Guide to Hawks (of) North America. Revised. Peterson field guide ser., no. 35. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Culliney, S., and B. Hull. GGRO Banders’ Raptor Identification Guide, 2 nd ed. GGRO, San Francisco, California .
Dunne, P., D. A. Sibley, & C. Sutton. 1988. Hawks in flight. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
Ferguson-Lees, J. and Christie, D.A. 2001. Raptors of the World. London, UK: Christopher Helm.
Hull, B, and P. H. Bloom. 2001. The North American Banders’ Manual for Raptor Banding Techniques. North American Banding Council.
Miller, A. H. 1941. The significance of molt centers among the secondary remiges in the Falconiformes. Condor 43:113-115.
Palmer, R. (ed.). 1988. Handbook of North American birds, vols. 4 &. 5. Yale U Press, New Haven.
Porter, R. F., Willis, I., Christensen, S., & Nielsen, B. P. 1981. Flight Identification of European Raptors. 3rd Ed. Poyser, Academic Press, London.
Pyle, P. In press. First-cycle molts in North American Falconiformes. J. Raptor Research.
W heeler, B. K., and W. S. Clark. 1995. A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors. Academic Press, London.
Wheeler, B. K. 2003a. Raptors of eastern North America. Princeton university press, Princeton, N.J.
Wheeler, B. K. 2003b. Raptors of western North America. Princeton university press, Princeton, N.J.
Highly recommended general references-
Gratto-Trevor, C. L. 2004. The North American Banders Manual for Shorebirds (Charadriiformes, suborder Charadrii). Point Reyes Station: North American Banding Council.
Prater, A. J., et al.1977. Guide to the Identification and Ageing of Holarctic Waders. Tring: British Trust for Ornithology, 1977.
More specific references -
Cramp, S., and K. E. L. Simmons, Eds. 1983. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The birds of the Western Palearctic, Vol. 3. Waders to gulls. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK.
Ferns, P., and H. Green. 1975. Methods of catching and studying breeding waders. Wader Study Group Bulletin 16: 9-12.
Ginn, H. B., and D. S. Melville. 1983. Molt in birds. British Trust for Ornithology Guide 19, Maud and Irvine Ltd., Tring, England. 112 pp.
Howe, M. A. 1980. Problems with wing tags: evidence of harm to Willets. Journal of Field Ornithology 51: 72-73.
Koopman, K., and J. B. Hulscher. 1976. Catching breeding waders on their nests. Wader Study Group Bulletin 19: 17-19.
Marchant, J., P. Hayman, and T. Prater. 1986. Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA. 412 pp.
Nicoll, M., and P. Kemp. 1983. Partial primary molt in first-spring/summer Common Sandpipers Actitis hypoleucos. Wader Study Group Bulletin 37: 37-38.
Mehl, K. R., K. L. Drake, G. W. Page, P. M. Sanzenbacher, S. M. Haig, and J. E. Thompson. 2003. Capture of breeding and wintering shorebirds with leg-hold noose mats. Journal of Field Ornithology 74: 401-405 .
Carney, S. M. Preliminary Keys to Waterfowl Age and Sex Identification by Means of age. Washington: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992. [Out of print, see the online version published at Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/tools/duckplum/duckplum.htm (Version 05DEC97)].
Cooke, Fred, Gregory J. Robertson, R. Ian Goudie, and W. Sean Boyd. 1997. Molt and the Basic Plumage of Harlequin Ducks. Condor 99:83-90.
Eddleson, William R. and Fritz L. Knopf. 1985. Determining Sex and Age of American Coot. J. Field Ornithology, 56:41-55.
Haramis, G. M., E. L. Derleth, and D. G. McAuley. 1982. Techniques for Trapping, Aging, and Banding Wintering Canvasbacks. J. Field Ornithology 53:342-351.
Kirby, Ronald E., Austin Reed, Pierre Dupuis, Holliday H. Obrecht, III, and Walter J. Quist. 2000. Description and Identification of American Black Duck, Mallard, and Hybrid Wing Plumage. Description and identification of American Black Duck, Mallard, and hybrid wing plumage. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR-2000-0002. 26 pp. [See the online version at Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/diplume/diplume.htm (Version 31OCT2000).]
LeMaster, Richard. 1986. Waterfowl Identification: The LeMaster Method. Scotch Game Call Co., Inc. Elba, NY.
North, N. 2004. Duck Banding. Video or CD. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario.
Acknowledgements:
William S. Clark, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Woody Martin and Steven M. Russell provided invaluable assistance with this page.
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